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What Matters Most On Friday, February 16, 2024

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Left: The body of a terrorist lies at a bus stop as Israeli police investigate the site of a terror shooting attack at the Re'em junction near Kiryat Malakhi in southern Israel, Friday, Feb. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov); Right: The victims of a shooting attack at Re’em Junction, southern Israel: Sgt. First Class (res.) Ori Yaish (top), 27, from Modiin and Yishai Gartner, 23, of Modiin Illit, of the Jerusalem Brigade’s 8119th Battalion’s support company (Courtesy)

Two killed, 4 hurt in terror attack at Re’em Junction in south Israel; gunman dead

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Victims of shooting near Kiryat Malachi identified as Yishai Gartner, 23, of Modiin Illit, and reservist Ori Yaish, 27, of Modiin; two of the wounded listed in serious condition

US President Joe Biden (L) meets with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on October 18, 2023, (Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

In call, Biden warns Netanyahu on Rafah; PM vows to resist Palestinian state

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

After 40-minute call, Netanyahu says he’ll defy ‘international dictates’ regarding Palestinian accord; Biden opposes offensive in Rafah without plan to protect civilians

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen during a discussion and a vote on the state budget at the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, February 7, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Feb 16: Day 133 – PM ‘categorically’ rejects an imposed Palestinian state

File: US Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns speaks at the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Virginia, July 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

PM, top officials meet with visiting CIA director amid hostage talks

By Lazar Berman, Gianluca Pacchiani and Agencies

Displaced Palestinians walk next to the border fence between Gaza and Egypt, on February 16, 2024, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, amid the ongoing war between Israel and the Hamas terror group. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

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Feb. 16: IDF reportedly slated to soon present war cabinet with detailed plan for Rafah op

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‘What if they were your children?’: Families demand cabinet return to Cairo talks

At protest, Ruby Chen, dual Israeli-US citizen and father of hostage, says he feels the ‘US wants to bring a deal more than the government of Israel does’

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Kibbutz says hostage Yair Yaakov was killed on October 7, body held in Gaza

Commander of Israel Police's Yamam elite counterterrorism unit speaks about the mission to rescue two hostages from Rafah, in the Gaza Strip, February 15, 2024. (Channel 12 screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Head of elite commando unit recounts ‘all or nothing’ operation to free hostages

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Children stand alongside Hamas terrorists in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on November 29, 2023. (AFP)

Report: IDF intel assesses that Hamas will ‘survive as terror group’ post-war

Document drawn up by Military Intelligence reportedly states that even if Israel dismantles Hamas’s organized military capabilities, it will continue to operate in Gaza

Ismail Abu Omar, an Al Jazeera reporter is seen (left) in Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7, and after being hit in a strike in south Gaza's Rafah on February 13, 2024. (Screenshot: X)

IDF says Al Jazeera reporter wounded in Gaza is also a Hamas deputy commander

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Staff Sgt. Noam Haba of the Paratrooper Brigade's 202nd Battalion, who the IDF announced was killed fighting in southern Gaza on February 15, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF arrests dozens of Oct. 7 terrorists in Gaza hospital; paratrooper killed in combat

Second soldier seriously hurt in battle that kills Staff Sgt. Noam Haba, 20; weaponry found inside Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza; Hamas says 5 patients have died

Video published by the New York Times on February 15, 2024, shows Egyptian construction vehicles working on a new wall, south of Gaza's Rafah. (New York Times video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Egypt reportedly building walled enclosure in case masses of Gazans flee to Sinai

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Martin Griffiths, the UN's under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, meets with the Syrian foreign minister in Damascus on June 26, 2023. (Louai Beshara/AFP)

Israel blasts top UN aid official after he says ‘Hamas is not a terrorist group for us’

By Lazar Berman, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Slamming comments by OCHA deputy chief Martin Griffiths, Jerusalem says UN ‘reaches new lows every day’; he later says he meant Hamas not a Security Council-designated terror group

A photo released by the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories showing humanitarian aid inside the Gaza Strip that has not been distributed, Feb. 15, 2024. (X screenshot used in accordance with article 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israel says UN failing to distribute aid in Gaza, needs to ‘scale up operations’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

File: The International Court of Justice, the principal judicial organ of the UN, delivers its order South Africa's request for provisional measures against Israel over its actions in the Gaza Strip, January 26, 2024. (International Court of Justice)

Israel says South Africa’s latest appeal to ICJ an attempt ‘to protect ally Hamas’

By Jeremy Sharon

Matisyahu performs in concert during the "Hold The Fire Tour" at Stubb's Waller Creek Amphitheater in Austin, Texas, Feb. 10, 2024. (Rick Kern/Getty Images via JTA)

He denounces 'hate-mongering, silencing artistic expression'

Two Matisyahu concerts canceled in US amid outcry from pro-Palestinian protesters

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Jewish singer, who has been vocal in his support for Israel since beginning of war, criticizes venues for caving to ‘antisemitic’ pressure

Leah Goldstein, the 2021 winner of Race Across America, had her invitation to speak at a Canadian women's empowerment event rescinded after Oct. 7 because of her past IDF service. (Screenshot used in accordance with article 27a of the Copyright Law)

Canadian cyclist disinvited as speaker at women’s event because of past IDF service

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Leah Goldstein booted from Ottawa International Women’s day event after pro-Palestinian activists discover her military background 3 decades ago

'Karaoke,' a film screening at Seret Film Festival in Barcelona, stars Sasson Gabay and Rita Shukrun. (Greenwich Entertainment via JTA)

Israeli film festival in Barcelona still on after venue change due to harassment campaign

By Jackie Hajdenberg

People walk in the Old city of Safed, northern Israel, February 4, 2024. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Reporter's notebook'This isn't some border city you up and leave'

In Safed, a deadly rocket salvo fails to rattle deeply rooted residents

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Jews have lived for centuries in the northern holy city. Its resilient inhabitants resumed regular life mere hours after Hezbollah hit it for the first time in years

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By Amanda Borschel-Dan

UN agency keeps Palestinians as eternal ‘refugees’ – even if they have citizenship. As staff collaboration with Hamas surfaces, Rettig Gur argues this is not the org’s biggest evil

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A poster with the name and picture of Mohammad Khdour, 17, reading "glory for the martyr hero who was martyred on Saturday February 10, 2024," is posted at the entrance to the family's house during his funeral in the West Bank village of Biddu, southwest of Ramallah, Monday, Feb. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

US sends investigators to West Bank following killings of two Palestinian-Americans

By AP and ToI Staff

Both Mohammad Ahmad al-Khdour and Tawfic Abdel Jabbar were killed by gunfire while driving their cars

AnalysisHard-right MK’s bill against incitement to terror could incriminate him, his colleagues

Wounded Israelis arrive at the Soroka Medical center in Beersheba, southern Israel, October 7, 2023. (Dudu Greenspan/Flash90)

From 7:30 a.m. to midnight Oct 7, Soroka received 676 wounded

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By Renee Ghert-Zand

While dealing with the ongoing medical challenges of the war, physicians are already in touch with others over what they learned about honing lifesaving preparedness protocols

File: Israeli soldiers stand guard while Palestinians and left wing activists protest in the village of Beit Dajan in the West Bank, on June 30, 2023. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

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Second gentleman Doug Emhoff, center, speaks during an event on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 14, 2024, to raise awareness of the sexual and gender-based violence Hamas perpetrated against women and children in Israel on and since October 7. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

US Congress condemns Hamas sexual violence in bipartisan resolution; Tlaib abstains

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Israeli deepfake detection startup raises first $16 million in seed funding

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